Tallpine, that's fine - but unions have played a role in keeping wages up.
Can someone please explain to me how America is going to be more prosperous without these evil unions? All I see happening is wages and benefits go down.
That's because no one taught you to look beyond the seen, obvious effects and to the harder to see effects.
What happens is UNION wages go down. As a result, industries that are subject to union demands will have more incentive to
keep jobs in this country and bring them back. A US worker is generally paid more than a Chinese worker because he is more productive. If his wages are not artificially increased by monopoly (i.e. the unions), there will be more workers hired. Should his wages be artificially increased
in this country his industry has more incentive to replace skilled American labor with unskilled Chinese (or Vietnamese or Indonesian or...) labor.
Also, correlation =/= causation.